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- Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I move:That Dáil Éireann: affirms that, as economic conditions continue to improve, it will stand up for working people and ensure that employees secure a fair share of growing national prosperity; accordingly calls for a programme of incremental increases to the national minimum wage until it is pegged at 60% of median earnings, and for a living wage of €11.50 per hour to...
- Workers' Rights: Motion [Private Members] (31 May 2016)
Brendan Howlin: This is Labour's first Private Members' time in the new Dáil and we had no difficulty in choosing the issue we want to prioritise. The previous Government was devoted to cleaning up the economic mess. Now, Ireland is in a strong position to grow again. My party's priorities are all about making sure the benefits of strong growth are fairly shared and about working to improve the...
- Written Answers — Department of Public Expenditure and Reform: Public Private Partnerships (31 May 2016)
Brendan Howlin: 550. To ask the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform if he has received a response from the European Commission to his predecessor's letter of 3 May 2016, expressing serious concerns at the changing approach taken by EUROSTAT to the balance sheet classification of public private partnership; his future strategy in this regard; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12744/16]
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: On a point of procedure, I was not notified that there was to be a change in the order today-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: With whom?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It certainly did not arrive at my desk. To ensure that we understand, the Ceann Comhairle might explain his ruling to the House as everybody would need to know.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: No, I understand the Ceann Comhairle's ruling for today on a party-----
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: -----but how can a party of seven take precedence over an existing party of seven?
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: It is a very simple question.
- Leaders' Questions (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: The question is very simple
- Ceisteanna - Questions: Citizens Assembly (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: An Oireachtas committee could do that.
- Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I agree. There has been much talk about ordering business in a different way and the agreement is that we are not going to do it through the old Whip system and that there will be a business committee which will set the agenda for the House. There was no consultation with us in regard to what Bills were to be restored. As a precursor to having the business committee, that would have been...
- Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: That was Government Bills.
- Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Is the current Bill dropped? It had reached Second Stage.
- Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: I appreciate that, a Cheann Comhairle. Thank you. I wish to raise two matters, the first of which relates to the Revised Book of Estimates. After the announcement of the budget, the Revised Book of Estimates for 2016 was presented to the previous Dáil. Is there to be a further Revised Book of Estimates or will individual Estimates be prepared? Obviously, there must be a unified...
- Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Will there be a new Revised Book of Estimates?
- Order of Business (1 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: We would be talking to our own.
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Following up on the issue of the Revised Estimates, I am getting worried that we are half way through the year and have not seen them. In tandem with the Revised Estimate Volume, will we have a revised stability programme update, SPU, as we are required to have under the Stability and Growth Pact? When will the revised SPU be prepared and submitted to the European Commission and will there...
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: Will the Tánaiste add her voice to that of Ms Julie Hambleton, whose sister Maxine was murdered in the bombings? Yesterday, she stated that those who had any level of humanity or moral compass should come forward. Would this not be the collective will of the House?
- Order of Business (2 Jun 2016)
Brendan Howlin: But we should call on people with information to come forward.